January 17,  2007

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DEPARTMENTAL MEETINGS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

The first **faculty** meeting of the semester will be Thursday, January 18 at 10 AM in 3092-C FLB.

The full *departmental* meeting is Friday January 19, at 9:00 in Lucy Ellis.

Friday, January 19, 5-7:30 PM, Lucy Ellis Lounge. You and your family are cordially invited to the full departmental gathering on Friday for conversation and pizza.

Please join me in welcoming our new colleague, Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor, Dr. Hania Siebenpfeiffer, Universitaet Muenster, for Spring 2007.

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

Cori Crane has co-published an article "Taking text to task: Issues and choices in curriculum construction" with Heidi Byrnes, Hiram Maxim, and Katherine Sprang in ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2006: 152 (85-110).

Laurie Johnson published 'Enlightenment According to Don Alfonso: Perilous Progress in Mozart's "Cosi fan Tutte"' in:  Practicing Progress:  The Promise and Limitations of Enlightenment, Festschrift for John A. McCarthy, eds. Richard E. Schade and Dieter Sevin(Amsterdam/New York:  Rodopi, 2007) pp. 59-74.  In the same volume Carl Niekerk published 'Casanova's Radical Enlightenment' pp. 75-92.

Laurie Johnson gave an invited lecture on January 12, 2007 at Vanderbilt University entitled "The Principle of the Past."

Carl Niekerk gave a talk on "Vienna Around 1900 and the Crisis of Public Art (Klimt, Mahler, Schnitzler)" at the Conference "The European Fin de Siècle : Gender, Nation, Race" (Dec. 8 / 9, Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London, School of Advanced Studies).

LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS

* Hana Wirth-Nesher is the scholar in residence in the Israel Studies Project for Spring 2007. Wirth-Nesher is professor of  English and American Literature at Tel Aviv Univ, where she is also director of the Goldreich Inst. for Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture and holder of the Haber Chair for the Study of the Jewish Experience in the US. She is the author of City Codes, Reading the Modern Urban Novel and more recently of Call It English: The Languages of Jewish-American Literature (Princeton UP, 2006). She is also the editor of What is Jewish LIterature and coeditor of the Cambridge Companion to Jewish American LIterature.

T  January 30  7:30  "Whose Story? Exploring Jewish-American and Israeli  Autobiography in  Philip Roth and Amos Oz,"   Reading Room, Levis Faculty Center

W  Jan 31 noon   Gender and Women's studies: "A Jewish Feminist in Israel--Reflections,"  911 S. Sixth St. 8 pm  local Yiddish group,  "Yiddish poetry in Israel"  Weichsel   2812 Salisbury, Champaign

Th Feb 1  4:00  Jewish studies workshop: "Cross Scripts: Israel and Hebrew in the Jewish American Imagination." 107 English.

T Feb  6  Noon,  Brown Bag talk for Program for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies ,TITLE ?  Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Language Bldg. 7:30: "On Being American and a non-Orthodox Jew in Israel," Temple Sinai

W Feb. 7  4:00  "The Yiddish Atlantic: Transnational Jewish-American Literature" 145 Lincoln Hall. Response by Gordon Hutner.

F Feb. 9   10-12:00   Office hours, 109 English.

WEEKLY DEPARTMENTAL ACTIVITIES
* The Deutsche Konversationsgruppe meets each Wednesday from 2-4 at The Bread Company on Goodwin. Students of all levels are welcome. Instructors of German courses, please let your students know about this opportunity to get extra German practice in an informal, no-pressure setting. More information is available from Frederick Schwink (schwink@uiuc.edu).

* The Scandinavian Coffee Hour meets every Wednesday from 4-6 PM at the Bread Company on Goodwin. All speakers of modern Scandinavian languages are welcome to attend. Contact: jfeason AT uiuc DOT edu.

* For information about The Middle High German Reading Group contact Frederick Schwink (schwink AT uiuc DOT edu).

* The IPRH Reading Group "Language and Social Interaction" holds its weekly data session Thursdays, 10-12, in 3114 FLB.  Anybody with a background or an interest in conversation analysis is welcome to attend.  For more information, contact Professor Andrea Golato golato AT uiuc DOT edu.

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